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transcript Verlag Patrimonialization on the Ruins of Empire
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£33.59
transcript Verlag East Central European Art Histories and Austria
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£40.00
transcript Verlag ManyValued Aesthetics
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£42.39
transcript Verlag Agnes Martin â Transcultural Translations
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£40.00
Transcript Verlag Woman African Other
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£43.99
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Art in Battle
Book SynopsisThe exhibition 'ART IN BATTLE' deals with battles over art initiated by Nazi policies and European conquests on several arenas. Expounding the problems of the overfamiliar dichotomy of Degenerate versus Great German art, it examines propaganda exhibitions in occupied Norway as well as hitherto unseen art by soldiers stationed in Norway. This exceptional catalogue both documents this ground-breaking show and assembles leading experts on the history and ideology of Nazi cultural campaigns in both Germany and Norway to initiate a fresh discussion of the relationships between centre and periphery within the artworlds of the Third Reich. Beyond historical re-assessment, this project also asks more pressingly: How do we encounter these battles over art today?
£62.24
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Pop Beckett – Intersections with Popular Culture
Book SynopsisWhen Samuel Becketts work first appeared, it was routinely described, by Adorno amongst others, as a clear example of European high culture. However, this judgement ignored an aspect of Becketts work and its reception that is, arguably, not yet fully understood; the intimate relation between his work and popular culture. Beckett used popular cultural forms; but popular culture has also found a place both for the work and for the man. This collection of essays examines how popular cultural forms and media are woven into the fabric of Becketts works, and how Beckett continues to have far-reaching impact on popular culture today in a host of different forms, in film and on television, from comics to meme culture, tourism to marketing.
£36.00
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon The Whispers of the Muses: Artworks as Time
Book SynopsisAlthough there is widespread belief that some artists attract the attention of muses more than others, this topic has, so far, not been taken up seriously in art history or sociology of culture. In his fascinating book, Vjeran Katunarić starts out by presenting many artworks, from literature and visual arts to performing arts and architecture, as examples that demonstrate the transcendental potential of art. The key concept explaining this capability concerns the crossing of three time frames, i.e. past, present, and future in the historical present.An inspirational source for such an approach is to be found in the aesthetic sociology and philosophy of Georg Simmel and in the philosophical hermeneutics of history by Walter Benjamin.The selected artworks and periods, respectively, span from early Renaissance and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to postmodernity and neoliberalism – with a glimpse to a possible future as the opening of the cosmic era of humanity that is anticipated in early vanguard and some contemporary paintings.
£30.60
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon The Arts of War: Ukrainian Artists Confront
Book SynopsisThe Ukrainian response to the 2022 Russian invasion has inspired a new appreciation for their country both within and beyond Ukraine. The steadfastness of Ukrainians in the defense of their country has surprised many. The stories presented here highlight the ways in which Ukrainians have long explored the meaning of their country and culture through the arts; and the manner in which the arts and their creators have empowered Ukrainians to confront the Russian invaders. These developments also offer intriguing clues about the culture, society, and politics of a post-war Ukraine.
£19.80
V&R unipress GmbH ART and the MIND â Ernst H. GOMBRICH: Mit dem
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Dirimart Hot Spot Istanbul Ebru Uygun Exhibition Catalogue
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£23.75
Edition Axel Menges Gegen das Erkalten des Erinnerns Against the
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£50.92
DOM Publishers Monterrey: Architectural Guide/Guía de
Book SynopsisMonterrey means mountain king, a name befitting its location surrounded by the Sierra Madre in north-eastern Mexico. It was founded in 1596 near the natural springs of Santa Lucia, a luscious oasis in an otherwise arid landscape. Its colonial beginnings are still visible in the architecture of the Barrio Antiguo district in the city centre. In the late 19th century, industrial development transformed the modest town into a flourishing, modern city. Its foundries and breweries reflect its industry, while its skyscrapers, universities, churches, and monuments designed by celebrated Mexican modernist architects like Mario Pani, Enrique de la Mora, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, and Luis Barragán reflect its modernity. Today, Monterrey is an important cultural, educational, medical, and business metropolis with buildings by Ricardo Legorreta, Nicholas Grimshaw, and Tadao Ando. Its fast growing residential, corporate, and commercial developments feature designs by Norman Foster, Cesar Pelli, Zaha Hadid , and Alejandro Aravena. This book presents the role of architecture in the continuous transformation of this city.
£22.80
V&R unipress GmbH Topography and Literature: Berlin and Modernism
Book SynopsisDie Auswirkungen der Stadtplanung auf Kunst und Literatur im Berlin der Weimarzeit.
£47.69
Edition Patrick Frey Elodie Pong: Paradise Paradoxe
Book SynopsisEyes can be shut but there is no off option for the nose. To breathe is to smell. And while visual stimuli only enter our brain via a complex process of neuronal translations, olfactory incentives affect us more directly and often unbeknownst to us. The invisible architecture that surrounds us is the starting point of artist Elodie Pong's project. She explores its numerous facets at an interface between fiction and reality, in both an exhibition at Helmhaus Zu?rich (March 11 to May 16, 2016) and in the space of this publication. Fragrances are quintessential signifiers and metaphors for the liquidity of our times. Subtly involved in every aspect of culture, smell plays an ungraspable role as an unspoken connection between people, objects and places. It acts as a sort of invisible communication tool. Perfume and scent drift across the boundaries that normally divide fields as disparate as marketing, identity politics, history, philosophy, scientific ethics and method, neurology, genetic modification, globalization, and sexuality and gender issues. This book interconnects disciplines to reflect upon the complex role of scent as a fluid vector of identity, myth and memory, post-evolutionary science, body-synthesis, capitalism, power and branding. Bandit once Elodie Pong's favorite fragrance has been described as the perfume that makes being bad smell good. Disguise, declaration, subversion are we led by the nose? Or does the olfactory rather offer the potential for positive change?With texts by Harry Baker, Justin Vivian Bond, Jim Drobnick, Holly Dugan, Jack Halberstam, Rachel Herz, Andreas Keller, Georg Kohler, Chus Martínez, Daniel Morgenthaler, Gayil Nalls, and Elodie Pong.
£33.30
Edition Patrick Frey Alan Reid: Warm Equations
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Edition Patrick Frey Cary Loren: Polaroids
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£43.20
Edition Patrick Frey Pathé'o
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£46.80
Edition Axel Menges Paul Wegener: Early Modernism in Film
Book SynopsisText in German. The title of Paul Wegener's film Hans Trutz im Schlaraffenland, dating from 1917, alludes to Pieter Bruegel's well-known picture Cockaigne (Das Schlaraffenland). For Wegener art history, which he counted as one of his 'favourite occupations' throughout his life, was an inexhaustible treasury of images. Although he did not always allude so openly to the relationship between film and other arts as he does here, it is always a tangible presence. Wegener was one of the most striking actors in the German theatre, from the time he joined Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater (1906) until his death in 1948. And at a very early stage he mastered the new pictorial language of the cinema, as a leading performer, director and author of many fairy-tale-like, imaginative films. He started in 1913 with his Student of Prague, which immediately brought him world fame. The high point was the 1920 film The Golem (with sets by Hans Poelzig), which played in New York, for example, for eleven months. Films like these placed Wegener at the beginning of a brilliant epoch in German film art. Wegener's pictorial world is seen both in the context of the art of his period and in a retrospective view of the history of the motif. Pictorial comparisons and analyses from the point of view of interdisciplinary iconography are revealing about Wegener's position in artistic development. Unknown aspects emerge, which show Wegener's personality and work in a new light. Comparative observation shows that this work is the film variant on the great Neo-Romantic renewal movement, which affected all fields of life and art at the beginning of our century. It has increasingly attracted academic attention in recent years, adding an interesting early phase to the excessively one-sided image of Modernism.
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Edition Axel Menges Karl Friedrich Schinkel--Leben und Werk: Leben
Book SynopsisText in German. This monograph was first published in 1980, and appears now in a third, improved edition. It is the first and to date the only book to place Schinkel's life and work in the artistic context of his day. It is devoted to his family and circle of friends, and to his universal artistic, technical and administrative activities. Arranged according to his various spheres of work, it brings together a variety of material from contemporary sources, letters, newspapers, diaries and other writing and presents Schinkel as his contemporaries saw him and in his own words. Authors featured include Bettina and Achim von Arnim, Clemens von Brentano, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Wilhelm von Humboldt, Johann Gottfried Schadow, Christian Daniel Rauch, Friedrich Tieck, Carl Friedrich Zelter and many others of his friends, who followed his artistic development sympathetically and also critically. As well as his architectural designs and buildings, a fitting place is found for his publicly exhibited dioramas and the magazine critics' response to them, his oil paintings, which were much loved by the Romantics, his stage sets, which are still admired and not least his arts-and-crafts work. The chosen illustrations underline the diversity of his output. Dankwart Guratzsch wrote about the first edition in the daily paper Die Welt: "...certainly the most moving book of the Schinkel year -- as it shows the setbacks and disappointments, and the physical suffering this tough, tireless, imaginative man had to go through to keep faith in his task as an ennobler of all human circumstances. Heinz Ohff, for many years arts editor for the Berlin Tagespiegel, wrote recently that he still considered the book 'unsurpassed' in terms of its wealth of facts. And Walter Jens referred to it in a lecture as an important cultural-historical analysis".
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Edition Axel Menges Memorials: Betrachtungen über Denk-Male in
Book SynopsisText in English & German. The topic of this book is memory. What do we remember? We like to recall joyful events and wish we could relive them again and again. On the other hand wars, genocides, flight, destruction and epidemics are events remembered with horror, and sometimes their memory is even repressed. Eventually times change, and we begin to forget everything that happened. Our vision of the world is in danger of vanishing. Monuments counteract forgetting. Up to the beginning of the 20th century these were marble busts, figures of horsemen, bronze sculptures, columns, gateways and tombs that were erected in public urban spaces and in parks. This was a way to honour heroes and their military, political and cultural feats and to keep their memory alive. Their goal was to educate and admonish people. Their function was thus to provide models, but also to make viewers feel submissive. Today, in our democratic, pluralistic society, when modern means of communication accelerate all developments, the definition of the monument as a solemn, massive sign of remembrance that brings to mind historic moments has become obsolete. Daily the mass media inundate us with a plethora of images of the past and the present. Thus millions of people can participate in past and present events. There is an almost infinite number of collective experiences and just as many signs of remembrance. This being so, is there anything that can still be called a monument? It is this and similar questions regarding monuments that preoccupy the author in this book; he presents his profound insights into all aspects of the history of architecture and art, of philosophy and the new media. The book is a godsend for readers who are looking for ideas and information that go beyond the mainstream.
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Jeske, Otger, u. Matthias Mader. I.P. Verlag Art of Alex Herman: From Iced Earth to Sodom
Book SynopsisAxel Hermann was an art student with a Kiss fixation living in Dortmund until a meeting with Robert Kampf -- who had just formed his own record label Century Media -- catapulted him into the world of album cover illustration. Starting his career as the in-house artist at Century Media in the second-half of the Eighties Hermann has become a highly-respected and much-in-demand freelance illustrator, and has worked with the likes of Sodom, Iced Earth and Edguy as well as more underground acts including Asphyx, Morgoth and Unleashed. In this, his first collection, Hermann pulls together the cream of his first quarter-century in the business, and with the help of some of the bands he''s worked with he explains at various times the thinking, the process and/or the objective behind each cover design. Expressive, provocative and challenging Hermann''s artwork is calibrated to shock -- at a number of levels -- and awe in equal measures, and even now he works hard at expanding both his horizons and his technique. It is little wonder that he is as exciting now as he was when he delivered his first album cover (for Poltergeist''s debut album Depression) back in 1989.
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Whispering Walls
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Distanz Tulips: Kontext
Book SynopsisWho owns the city?In Tulips, artist duo Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, alongside scholar Christina B. Hanhardt map a terrain where they explore gestures of authority and obedience in the public space within the urban context of gentrification and policing against marginalized queer communities.The work of Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings (b. 1991 in Newcastle and 1991 in London, live and working in London) deals with the socio-cultural and political structures that reinforce conservatism and discriminatory practices within and around the LGBTQIA+ community. In their works the artist duo explores how the queer community's safe spaces have been displaced by political strategies and how a history of femininity and the colonized body in the transition to capitalism is shaped by rationalization of social reproduction and ownership of the self.Christina B. Hanhardt (lives and works in New York) is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies. Her research focuses on the historical and contemporary study of U.S. social movements and cities since the mid-20th century, with an emphasis on the politics of stigma, punishment, and uneven development.KONTEXT, a series by DISTANZ, brings together artists and writers for an exchange between the worlds of writing and contemporary art. With commissioned text, reissued essays, or experimental writing, the publication series seeks to look at and comment on current debates through writing and contemporary art.
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Distanz By the Highway: Kontext
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Afterhours Indonesian Women Artists: Into The Future
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Afterhours Srihadi Man X Universe
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art
Book SynopsisThis volume also covers major aspects, such as the role of intellectualism, the description of abstract and primitive art, and the unison of symbolism and individual portraiture in premodern cultures.
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Motilal Banarsidass, The Art of Indian Asia Pt. 1 2
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D.K. Print World Ltd Elements of Indian Art: Including Temple
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D.K. Print World Ltd Rock Art of India: Suitable Dating Techniques
Book SynopsisRock art is vital for studying human cognitive evolution globally. Dating it is challenging due to methodological issues. Researchers use techniques like radiocarbon analyses and lichenometry to establish chronologies. This volume focuses on dating methods for Indian rock art, offering new insights and results.
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Aryan Books International Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom: Contemporary Art of
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Aryan Books International Art and Icon: Essays on Early Indian Art
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Roli Books Pvt Ltd Remembering Agra
Book SynopsisThe 'Pocket Art Series' is a unique and innovative set of small books focusing on artists and art forms which have left an indelible impression on the culture of India. Their purpose is to make quintessential Indian art affordable and accessible for all -- art lovers, aficionados and students.
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Roli Books Pvt Ltd Himalayan Art
Book SynopsisThe Himalayas nurture diverse cultures with unique art rooted in religious practices. From thangkas to monasteries, the region's art traditions are rich and documented in a book, showcasing the beauty threatened by modernity.
£19.94
Kaveri Books Scythian Elements in Early Indian Art
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Sandeep Prakashan Medieval Art of India 1000 AD to 1700 AD:
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Sandeep Prakashan Gleanings of Indian Music and Art
Book SynopsisGleanings of Indian Music and Art features articles by renowned scholars, offering valuable insights on music and art. Edited by Dr. Leela Omchery and Deepi Bhalla, this volume is a treasure for lovers and scholars, with rare content that enriches the understanding of these subjects.
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Sandeep Prakashan Images, Attributes and Motifs: Studies in Early
Book SynopsisThe four sections of book focuses attention on the iconology and significance of two-armed images; trace the origin, morphology and typological evolution of vajra; discusses the wide archaeological evidence of terracotta art forms; the study of early coin motifs forms.
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Parvati
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd The Dancer on the Horse Reflections on the Art of
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Lines from an Artistic Life the Drawings of
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Krishen Khanna: Images in My Time Images in My
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£36.10
Lotus Press Illustarted Dictionary of Art
Book SynopsisArt is the creation of beautiful and meaningful things through skill and creativity. It encompasses various forms like painting, sculpture, music, and literature. This dictionary compiles art terms to provide a convenient reference for readers, offering simplified explanations and enriching examples.
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Royal Tombs of India
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd The Two Faces of Beauty Science and Art
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£20.90
Rekha Prakashan Kala Chintan: K.C. Aryan Commemoration Volume:
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£62.99
Oslo Academic Press Edvard Munch: An Anthology
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£44.10
